Glossary
need some stuff in here. :-)
OK - Feel free to correct obvious errors!
No doubt we'll work out how to order it, eventually.
A lot of these relate to Ed Potter's story. If you want to find or return to it click here introduction. Some of them are just examples of sheer laziness.
- AGM
- Annual General Meeting
- BHGA
- British Hang Gliding Association
- BHPA
- British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association
- CAA
- Civil Aviation Authority
- CAC
- Cambridgeshire Aerotow Club
- CMC
- Cambridgeshire Microlight Club
- Lejair
- Tony and Rona Webb's tow hang gliding school
- NATS
- Norfolk AeroTow Syndicate
- NHGC
- Norfolk Hang Gliding Club
- NHGPC
- Norfolk Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club
- NNHGC
- North Norfolk Hang Gliding Club
- NXCL
- National Cross Country League
- SCFHGC
- Suffolk Coastal Floaters Hang Gliding Club
- ATO
- Above take off
- CFI
- Chief Flying Instructor
- CFX
- Floating Cross Tube (hang glider component)
- Comp
- Competition
- DoD
- Doddery old Duffer (term of endearment/abuse)
- E, NE, SE, SW, NW etc
- Compass points; hence NWerly etc
- EA
- East Anglia
- EAP or EP
- Ed Potter
- EPC
- Elementary Pilot Certificate
- GPS
- Global Positioning System; instrument showing your geographical location
- Hangie
- Hang glider pilot
- Huley
- Very strong wind
- OR or O/R
- Out and Return flight
- Peri track
- Tarmac perimeter track of an airfield
- PoW
- Prisoner of War
- PTT
- Push-to-talk; a radio intercom switch
- Vario
- Variometer; an instrument showing the rate of ascent or descent
- WW1
- World War I
- XC
- Cross country flight; plural XCs; and variously XCing, XCd (no grocer's apostrophes please)
- 360
- Three-sixty (noun and verb); to fly in a complete (horizontal) circle, or continuously do so as in thermalling
- 2nd generation
- An improvement in hang glider design beyond the earliest rogallo sail designs, usually with some wing battens
- 5th generation
- An advanced design of hang glider with CFX and double surface wing section
- A-frame
- the triangular control frame of a hang glider, comprising two uprights and base bar
- Flexwing
- A hang glider with frame and structure, that distorts for aerodynamic control; not a Paraglider.
- Kite
- A hang glider, of any sort
- Paraglider
- Glorified banana shaped parachute with no frame
- Rigid wing
- A hang glider with a rigid structure, fabric and/or fibreglass covering, that has movable surfaces for aerodynamic control
- Airwave
- UK manufacturer of hang gliders called e.g. Magic, Klassic, Kiss, etc
- Hiway
- UK manufacturer of hang gliders in the earliest days e.g. Cloudbase, Hiway 220, 240, Harrier, Scorpion, Super Scorpion
- La Mouette
- French manufacturer (Gerard Thevenot) of hang gliders called e.g. Topless, Top Secret
- UP
- US manufacturer of the first CFX double surface hang gliders e.g. Comet